Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 231 316
Rank change year-on-year -139 +85 -77
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 461 643 921
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.54% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 225 289 535
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £37,639
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -124 419 £66,771 -7.90% 134
London -21 257 £80,000 - 73
Work from Home +66 254 £63,076 -2.96% 67
UK excluding London -170 153 £63,076 -2.40% 95
North of England -15 55 £68,510 -14.36% 21
North West +15 37 £85,000 +6.25% 10
East of England -13 28 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South East -147 26 £47,500 -32.14% 37
South West -91 20 £69,056 +15.09% 11
Midlands -35 19 £60,000 -12.09% 12
West Midlands -16 17 £60,000 -13.67% 5
Yorkshire -41 15 £60,850 +87.23% 11
Scotland +3 5 £85,000 +4.62% 5
North East -40 3 £63,076 -23.54%
Wales -46 3 £69,501 +16.11%
East Midlands -36 2 £95,847 +59.74% 7

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (3.04%) Confluence
3 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.46%) Workfront
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.87%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 79 (17.14%) AWS
2 61 (13.23%) SaaS
3 55 (11.93%) Azure
4 53 (11.50%) iPaaS
5 17 (3.69%) GCP
6 14 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.82%) GitHub
7 13 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.60%) Pulumi
9 9 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.95%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.74%) Figma
11 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.30%) Asana
13 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.87%) H2O.ai
14 4 (0.87%) Miro
14 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 4 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (16.05%) Broadband
2 29 (6.29%) HTTP
3 10 (2.17%) WAN
4 8 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.30%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) LAN
6 5 (1.08%) Multicast
6 5 (1.08%) Network Security
6 5 (1.08%) NGN
7 4 (0.87%) MPLS
7 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.65%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) DNS
9 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) SMS
10 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.36%) Metadata
2 13 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.60%) Power BI
3 12 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 7 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.65%) Big Data
6 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.65%) Tableau
7 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (5.86%) JIRA
2 12 (2.60%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.22%) GitLab
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 158 (34.27%) Marketing
2 145 (31.45%) Social Skills
3 140 (30.37%) Finance
4 68 (14.75%) Banking
5 59 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (12.58%) Retail
7 54 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (11.06%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (10.41%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (9.98%) Law
11 31 (6.72%) Public Sector
12 29 (6.29%) Legal
13 22 (4.77%) Back Office
14 14 (3.04%) Italian Language
14 14 (3.04%) Retail Banking
15 13 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (2.60%) Manufacturing
17 11 (2.39%) German Language
18 9 (1.95%) Spanish Language
18 9 (1.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (29.28%) Product Manager
2 76 (16.49%) Lead
3 74 (16.05%) Product Owner
4 69 (14.97%) Senior
5 40 (8.68%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.03%) Senior Product Manager
7 34 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.51%) Development Engineer
9 29 (6.29%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.56%) Developer
11 20 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.90%) Consultant
13 17 (3.69%) Product Lead
14 14 (3.04%) Business Consultant
14 14 (3.04%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (3.04%) Development Consultant
14 14 (3.04%) Platform Manager
15 12 (2.60%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.60%) Cloud Developer
15 12 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.72%) REST
2 12 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.74%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.74%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.30%) CSS
4 6 (1.30%) HTML
5 5 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.08%) LangChain
6 4 (0.87%) Keras
6 4 (0.87%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.65%) .NET
7 3 (0.65%) Spring
7 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.43%) FHIR
8 2 (0.43%) Pandas
8 2 (0.43%) Plotly
8 2 (0.43%) React
8 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 165 (35.79%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.88%) Social Media
3 54 (11.71%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.71%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.81%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.51%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.56%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.39%) Web Conferencing
10 9 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.74%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.30%) Podcast
13 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.77%) Linux
2 13 (2.82%) Unix
3 9 (1.95%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (65.08%) Roadmaps
2 214 (46.42%) Agile
3 137 (29.72%) Product Roadmap
4 127 (27.55%) Product Vision
5 108 (23.43%) Decision-Making
6 94 (20.39%) AI
7 92 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (19.96%) User Stories
8 87 (18.87%) Mentoring
8 87 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (18.00%) Customer Experience
10 82 (17.79%) Product Backlog
10 82 (17.79%) Product Requirements
11 74 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (15.62%) Sprint Planning
13 67 (14.53%) Workflow
14 65 (14.10%) Software Engineering
15 63 (13.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 61 (13.23%) Matrix Organization
17 60 (13.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.41%) Java
2 33 (7.16%) Python
3 22 (4.77%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.04%) Bash
5 12 (2.60%) Go
6 10 (2.17%) SQL
7 6 (1.30%) Bicep
8 3 (0.65%) C#
8 3 (0.65%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.65%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) R
9 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 72 (15.62%) Degree
2 14 (3.04%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.95%) HND
7 8 (1.74%) HNC
8 7 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.87%) CCNA
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) CSPO
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) CIMA
12 2 (0.43%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.43%) MCSA
12 2 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.42%) QA
2 18 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.17%) GDPR
4 9 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.87%) PERC
5 4 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) HL7
6 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Firmware
3 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.43%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (5.64%) Terraform
2 16 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.60%) Ansible
3 12 (2.60%) Argo
3 12 (2.60%) Kustomize
3 12 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.43%) WSUS
6 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (13.02%) Adobe
2 46 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.56%) Google
4 14 (3.04%) Oracle
5 10 (2.17%) Cisco
6 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Dell
8 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.08%) CQG
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
8 5 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.08%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.08%) Juniper
8 5 (1.08%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.08%) Reuters
8 5 (1.08%) Trayport
9 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Toshiba